Plates

or Plates of Ment. Slang for feet. One of the chief
sources of slang is rhyme. Thus meat rhymes with feet, and
“warming my plates” is slang for warming my fect. Similarly, “Pory
O'More” is slang for door, and “there came a knock at the Rory O'More” means there was a knock at the door. A prescott is slang for waistcoat
(See Chivy.)